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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Plan (25 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 210. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated amount Ireland has paid in fines in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021 for missing climate action targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58110/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Plan (25 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 211. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of funding his Department is projecting needs to be budgeted for to meet obligations for missing Ireland’s climate action targets for each year to 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58111/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (25 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 276. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the pandemic unemployment payment was open to applicants in circumstances in which the applicant was self-employed and lost their job due to the Covid-19 pandemic between 13 March 2020 and 7 July 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58114/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (25 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 277. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the pandemic unemployment payment was open to applicants in circumstances in which the applicant was in receipt of the back to work enterprise allowance scheme and could not work due to the Covid-19 pandemic between 13 March 2020 and 7 July 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58115/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Correspondence (25 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 304. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will reply to correspondence from this Deputy dated 13 October and 4 November 2021. [58076/21]

Education (Health, Relationships and Sex Education) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: I will first make a point about some of the comments of the previous speakers. We had a debate in this House last night about the mother and baby homes and the treatment of women by the State. Yet, the same Members have come in today to talk about the need for a religious aspect in our schools. It is the exact same religious aspect in our schools that led to the mother and baby home...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries (24 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 45. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the development of the new policy and regulatory framework for inland fisheries in Ireland; the way in which stakeholders and the wider public will be involved in developing this framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58021/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 209. To ask the Minister for Health the overall number of persons in Ireland that have been diagnosed with Covid-19 to date; the percentage of the population this accounts for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57860/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 210. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have been diagnosed with long-Covid after contracting the virus; the main symptoms which persons are being treated for; the number of persons that suffer from each of these long-term effects in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57861/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (23 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views in relation to the submission from the Donegal Education and Training Board, ETB, for additional supports to assist students affected by the mica issue; if her attention has been drawn to the unique challenges to the mental health and well-being of the student cohort in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (23 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: This question is on a specific submission that was made by Donegal ETB to the Department to try to address a unique set of circumstances around children living in mica-affected homes in Donegal and the needs identified by their schools. There is no doubt that these children are living under severe pressure. Their homes are at risk of collapsing, they are going into schools and the schools...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (23 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: The Minister gave a comprehensive outline of the measures that are in place in schools to deal with the existing mental health problems and difficulties they have and that exist in every school all over the country. We are talking about a serious crisis that is happening in part of Donegal. The ETB's submission to the Department recognises that it is only in that specific part of the county...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (23 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: That is the most relevant thing the Minister has said tonight. It is vitally important that officials from the Department would meet Donegal ETB to discuss this issue with it. Donegal ETB even made a specific point in its briefing to Deputies outlining what it is doing and on what it made a submission to the Department of Education. That is how worried it is about the matter. Everything...

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this very important issue. I completely support Sinn Féin’s motion for an expansion of the mother and baby homes redress scheme to all former residents of mother and baby homes regardless of how long or short their stay. I thank Deputy Funchion for bringing this motion to the House. I echo the words of the survivors' group, who I...

Climate Action Plan 2021: Statements (23 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: What strikes me most about the 2021 climate action plan is not only its lack of ambition and bravery, but most important, its complete lack of any sense of togetherness in the face of this immense global issue that we are facing together. It is clear that the plan is not in line with climate justice. The statement by the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste, and the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: As those affected by mica in County Donegal and elsewhere face further delays in waiting for the Cabinet to agree a proper and functional redress scheme, we were hit with further revelations about the entangled relationship of Donegal County Council with the quarry site that produced the mica-riddled blocks, as well as the purchases of mica-affected homes in Buncrana. As reported by local...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: We have to have answers.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (23 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 251. To ask the Minister for Finance if the comprehensive review of the disabled drivers scheme has taken place; if there are proposals to change outdated legalisation on the strict qualifying criteria for persons to avail of services through this scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57445/21]

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: I can understand why this amendment was tabled and although section 15 may not be the appropriate section for it, the Department and the Minister could have found a place for it in the Bill. Section 15 simply lays out the Long Title to the Bill. All legislation should have some review procedure within it and some method of reporting on its operation over time. That is vitally important and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (18 Nov 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 140. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department is making exceptions for permit holders applying for a stamp 4 support letter who were paid less than that specified on their critical skills employment permit due to the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56759/21]